Year: 2012

The world of Japanese art has lost one of the great collectors with the death of Mary Griggs Burke, age 96, at her home in New York City on December 8, 2012.

Mary Livingston Griggs was born in St. Paul, Minnesota on June 20, 1916. She grew up in a Victorian mansion filled with 18th-century French art, but was also exposed to a few Japanese pieces that her mother had acquired. She earned a bachelor’s degree in 1938 from Sarah Lawrence College, where she studied literature with Joseph Campbell and painting with Bradley Walker Tomlin, a member of the New York School of Abstract Expressionists.

Why not give JASA journals and art books this holiday season? Many are available at special discounted rates until December 31:  Impressions 37, $31 $21;  Impressions back issues 19–25 and 27–36, $15 $12 ; and Designed for Pleasure, $45 $26. All prices include shipping within the U.S. To order, please visit our JASA Store or use our Publications Order Form.

Terry Satsuki Milhaupt, Board member of the Japanese Art Society of America and highly respected independent scholar, passed away just before Thanksgiving 2012 following a brief illness. Terry had served on the Board for several years and impressed everyone with her scholarship, enthusiasm and perceptive observations.  Our thoughts and prayers go out to her family and all who mourn her passing.

Rare Correspondence, the companion issue to Impressions 36, features letters from the art dealer Harry Packard to his client, the print collector Edwin Grabhorn, from 1950 to 1964. Members who joined or renewed up until June 2015  (for the January–December 2015 membership year) received this issue free as part of their membership. To order additional copies, visit the JASA Store, or print and fill out…

On PBS’s April 9, 2012,  broadcast, Yukio Lippit discussed the National Gallery's exhibit Jakuchu's Colorful Realm of Living Beings, visited by JASA members.  Watch it online.